MAY 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 623

EDWARD WEST, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Manufacturer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 21st day of July next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto; and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 6th day of July next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1433.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 11th May, 1885.

PATENT for Improvements in Mills or Triturators for reducing Cement or other Hard Substances.

WILLIAM DAWSON, of Chiswick, Middlesex, England, Civil Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 23rd day of July next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto; and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 8th day of July next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1434.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for veining Leather, to be called “Cone’s Double-screw Shoulder Vein.”

FREDERICK WILLIAM CONE, of Rangiora, New Zealand, Saddler, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 23rd day of July next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto; and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 8th day of July next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1435.

Statutes of the University of New Zealand.

STATUTES OF THE NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY.

Statute amending Statute “Of Terms and Lectures.”

Section III. of the statute “Of Terms and Lectures” is hereby repealed, and the following is enacted in lieu thereof:—

III. All undergraduates who are admitted to an annual examination under this statute shall pay a fee of one guinea for each subject taken at such annual examination.

Statute amending Statute “Of the Entrance Examination.”

Section I. of the statute “Of the Entrance Examination” is hereby repealed, and the following is enacted in lieu thereof:—

I. An entrance examination shall be held in the month of December in each year, at which candidates shall be examined for matriculation, junior scholarships, and the medical preliminary.

Statute amending Statute “Of Matriculation.”

Subsections 7 and 8 of Section I. of the statute “Of Matriculation” are hereby repealed, and the following are enacted in lieu thereof:—

7. ALGEBRA.—To simple equations, inclusive, with easy problems.

8. EUCLID.—Books I. and II.

Subsection 10 of Section I. of the same statute is hereby repealed, and the following is enacted in lieu thereof:—

10. GEOGRAPHY.—Political and physical.

Statute amending Statute “Of the Degree of Bachelor of Arts.”

The first paragraph of Section I. of the statute “Of the Degree of Bachelor of Arts” is hereby repealed, and the following is enacted in lieu thereof:—

The subjects of examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts shall be—1. Latin language and literature. 2. Greek language and literature. 3. English language and literature. 4. Modern languages and literature. 5. General history and political economy. 6. Jurisprudence and constitutional history. 7. Pure mathematics—elementary geometry, trigonometry, and algebra. 8. Applied mathematics—elementary mechanics and hydrostatics. 9. Physical science, to include—(a) Heat and radiant heat; and (b) sound and light: or, at the option of the candidate, electricity and magnetism. 10. Chemistry. 11. Natural science—General biology, and either botany or zoology or geology. 12. Mental science. The subjects will be divided as follows:—(The remainder of Section I. as at present in force, subject to the following amendments:—)

Subsections (1) and (2) of Section I. of the same statute are hereby repealed, and the following are enacted in lieu thereof:—

(1.) LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.—(Two papers.)
(a.) Translation of simple unseen passages from Latin into English; selected portions of the works of one prose and one verse author. (b.) An easy passage or passages for translation from English into Latin prose; questions on grammar.

(2.) GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.—(Two papers.)
(a.) Translation of simple unseen passages from Greek into English; selected portions of the works of one prose and one verse author. (b.) An easy passage or passages for translation from English into Greek prose; questions on grammar.

Subsection (8) of Section I. of the same statute is hereby amended by the omission of all the words after the end of paragraph (b), and the addition of the following in lieu thereof:—

A candidate in physical science will be required, on presenting himself for examination, to furnish to the Supervisor a certificate from the teacher of the subject or branch subject that he has passed a practical examination in such subject, as follows: (a.) Heat: Use of thermometers, barometers, and hygrometers; determination of the density of solids and liquids; calculation of the density of gases from observations of their temperature and pressure; calorimetry. (b.) Sound and Light: Use of goniometer, photometer, spectroscope, telescope, and microscope; determination of the curvature, focal length, and magnifying power of lenses; determination of the refractive index of solids and liquids. (c.) Electricity and Magnetism: Use of electrometer, galvanometer, voltmeter, Wheatstone’s bridge, and resistance coils; determination of the resistance of conductors and batteries; determination of the electro-motive force of batteries, and of the strength of currents; measurement of magnetic forces.

The certificate must be given by a teacher in an affiliated institution who shall have been authorized by the Chancellor to grant certificates. A fee of one guinea shall be paid by the candidate to the teacher for conducting the practical examination, unless the candidate be attending the lectures of such teacher.

Subsections (10) and (11) of Section I. of the same statute are hereby repealed, and the following are enacted in lieu thereof:—

(11.) NATURAL SCIENCE.—(Two papers.)
(a.) General Biology.—1. General structure and physiology of animal and vegetable cells. 2. General structure of the following animal and vegetable tissues:—Animal: Blood, epithelium, epidermis, connective tissue, cartilage, bone, muscle, nerve. Vegetable: Epidermis, fundamental tissue, fibro-vascular tissue. 3. Arrangement of tissues into organs and systems of organs in plants and animals. 4. Physiology of nutrition, circulation, respiration, and excretion in plants and animals. 5. Elementary physiology of muscle and nerve. 6. General phenomena of reproduction, asexual and sexual, in plants and animals. 7. The chief stages in the development of the egg-cell in plants and animals. 8. Significance of the terms fauna, flora, range of species, barriers, modes of dispersal. 9. Principles of classification. 10. Origin of species: Heredity and variation, struggle for existence, use and disuse, degeneration, rudimentary organs, mimicry and protective colouring, natural selection, production of varieties, connection between ontogeny and phylogeny. 11. Biogenesis and abiogenesis.

Practical Work: The microscopical examination of Saccharomyces, Pleurococcus or some unicellular Alga, Bacterium and Amœba; the anatomy and histology of a flowering plant; the microscopical examination of the tissues enumerated in 2 above.

(b.) One of the following:—
(i.) Botany.—1. The general morphology of the cells, tissues, and organs of plants. 2. The principal characters of the classes of plants and of the following natural orders of flowering plants: Gramineæ, Cyperaceæ, Aroideæ, Liliaceæ, Irideæ, Orchideæ, Salicineæ, Labiatæ, Scrophularineæ, Solanaceæ, Primulaceæ, Ericaceæ, Campanulaceæ, Compositæ, Umbelliferæ, Myrtaceæ, Rosaceæ, Leguminosæ, Geraniaceæ, Caryophylleæ, Pittosporaceæ, Cruciferæ, Violariæ, Ranunculaceæ. 3. The structure (including histology) and life-history of the following types: Pleurococcus, Spirogyra, a Diatom, Closterium, Hormosira or any fucoid, Vaucheria, Volvox, Ceramium or any red-seaweed, Nitella or Chara